Vulnerability: Local Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service in Xsun Server

CVE-2003-1058 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Xsun server for Sun Solaris 2.6 through 9, when running in Direct Graphics Access (DGA) mode, allows local users to cause a denial of service (Xsun crash) or to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system, probably via a symlink attack on temporary server files.

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